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An educational silent film about how the Detroit News newspaper is produced. Original description provided by the producers: “Extra! Extra! All about the ballgame.” Newsboys running out of building with papers, pedestrian traffic. “Simple isn’t it? A few minutes after the last ball is pitched, the complete story of the game is sold on the street.” View of baseball game in progress. “Fire! Fire! Big downtown blaze! And hardly before the fire bells have stopped ringing, the story is on the street.” Firemen fighting warehouse fire. “And how do they do it? We’ll show you -- the reporter leaves the fire and telephones his story to the paper --” Reporter leaving scene of fire. “The copy is prepared by the Editorial department.” Men working at desks in large room. “And delivered to the ‘Linotypers.’” Worker operating Linotype machine, “A wonderful machine is the Linotype -- the operator manipulates a keyboard similar to a typewriter and the machine does the rest.” Close-up of keyboard, operator’s hands - operator opening front of machine, lines of type in place, closing machine - showing line of type removed from machine. “Now the next step is the making of a matrix -- a stiff cardboard i